About Vote Clock

Last updated November 4, 2026

Vote Clock (VoteClock.org) is a free, nonpartisan election website. On November 3, 2026 it showed voters their state's deadlines, where to vote and what was on their ballot. Now it shows the 2026 results as the Associated Press calls them, the dates still ahead as states count and certify, who represents you and how long each of them has left in office, and the countdown to the next elections, which newsrooms, schools and libraries can put on their own websites. It doesn't publish polls or predict who will win.

Independent and nonpartisan

Vote Clock does not support or oppose any candidate, party or ballot measure. We don't use party colors for candidates, parties, maps or results, and we show every officeholder the same way. The one red on the site is the warning on a deadline's last day.

Vote Clock is operated by Election Media LLC, an Illinois company, and is funded by its founder and by voluntary tips from readers (Support Vote Clock). It does not accept money from candidates, campaigns, political parties or political action committees, and it does not show ads. It is a free election tool with no sign-up and no personal data stored, and it doesn't sell or share your information: it costs you neither your privacy nor your money. If we accept grants or sponsorships in the future, we'll list every funder on this page.

Vote Clock is not a government website and is not affiliated with any election office. Your state or local election office always has the final word.

How we check dates

The short version is below. The full method, step by step, is on How we source and verify voting deadlines.

• Official government sources only. Every deadline comes from a state or local election office, an official election calendar, or state law. We never take a date from a news report or from another voter website, and every source link on a deadline goes to a government page.
• The hour, only when it is official. Where a state sets a clock time, such as 4 p.m. or 9 p.m., we show it and count down to it in that state's time zone. Where there is no statewide hour, we say "by your local election office's close of business" and never count down to a midnight the state didn't set.
• Each way to register has its own date. Online, in person and by mail can close at different times, so each is listed separately.
• Every date shows its source. Each deadline links to the official page it came from and shows the day it was last checked.
• No guessing. If we can't confirm a state's dates, we don't show them. Instead, we say we're still verifying and send you to that state's official election office.
• We re-check every morning. A program looks for each date on its official page every morning, and the "Checked" date moves when it finds it. Dates on pages a program can't read are re-read by a person.

Where our information comes from

• Voting deadlines: state and local election offices, official election calendars and state law.
• Election Day: federal law, 2 U.S.C. § 7, and 3 U.S.C. § 21 for presidential elections.
• Members of Congress, the President and the Vice President: the public-domain congress-legislators dataset, compiled from official congressional records and refreshed daily.
• Governors: official state websites and state constitutions.
• Finding your district from an address: the U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder. If it has no match for an address you typed, Google's Geocoding API gets one try at finding the address, and the districts still come from the Census Bureau.
• Polling places and what's on your ballot: official data from the Voting Information Project (Democracy Works), through Google's Civic Information API.
• Your street address from "Use my current location": Google's Geocoding API. You confirm the address before anything else uses it.
• Election night results: when we show results, they come from a licensed provider named on the results. Until then, we link to each state's official results.

How we use AI

Vote Clock was built with help from AI tools, and it uses AI to watch for news. Every six hours, AI searches official state election offices and a short list of trusted newsrooms for changes to how, when or where people vote. When it finds one, it writes a short, neutral summary and copies the exact sentence it relied on. Our system then cross-references that sentence with the source page and posts the summary in The Latest only if the sentence is really there, labeled "AI summary" and linked to its source. Anything it can't confirm waits for a person to review.

AI never changes deadlines or officeholder information. A person checks those against official sources.

Corrections

If you think a date or detail is wrong, use "Report an error" under any state's dates, or email [email protected] with the state and what you found. A report never changes a date by itself: AI compares the date with the official page and recommends, and a person decides. We check every report against the official source. If we were wrong, we fix it promptly and update the "Checked" date. If we can't confirm a date quickly, we hide it and point voters to the official election office until we can.

Election research archive

Past election information is preserved for public reference and to reduce repeated research for future election cycles. The 2026 early-voting research archive documents the earlier location directory, official sources and recorded reach. Historical addresses and hours are not current voting instructions.

Contact

General questions: [email protected]
Press and partnerships: [email protected]